Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome

Flavius Josephus is known for his portraits of first-century conditions in Judaea. This book attempts a detailed treatment of Josephus' Roman context: the significance of his works for understanding Rome in the late first century, and the significance of that Roman world for understanding Josephus.

The writers are distinguished and their contributions never less than thought-provoking

Autorentext
Jonathan Edmondson is Associate Professor, York University, Toronto Steve Mason is Canada Research Chair in Greco-Roman Cultural Interaction, York University, Toronto James Rives is Associate Professor, York University, Toronto

Klappentext
Flavian Rome has most often been studied without serious attention to its most prolific extant author, Titus Flavius Josephus. Josephus, in turn, has usually been studied for what he is writing about (mainly, events in Judaea) rather than for the context in which he wrote: Flavian Rome. For the first time, this book brings these two phenomena into critical engagement, so that Josephus may illuminate Flavian Rome, and Flavian Rome, Josephus. Who were his likely audiences or patrons in Rome? How did the context in which he wrote affect his writing? What do his narratives say or imply about that context? This book brings together contributions from leading international scholars of Josephus and Flavian-Roman history and literature.

Inhalt
Introduction: Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome; I. JOSEPHUS IN THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT OF FLAVIAN ROME; 1. Josephus' Roman Audience: Josephus and the Roman Elites; 2. Foreign Elites at Rome; 3. Herodians and 'Ioudaioi' in Flavian Rome; 4. Josephus in the Diaspora; II. THE IMPACT OF THE JEWISH WAR IN FLAVIAN ROME; 5. Last Year in Jerusalem: Monuments of the Jewish War in Rome; 6. The Sack of the Temple in Josephus and Tacitus; 7. Flavian Religious Policy and the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple; 8. The 'Fiscus Iudaicus' and Gentile Attitudes to Judaism in Flavian Rome; III. JOSEPHUS: LITERATURE AND HISTORIOGRAPHY IN FLAVIAN ROME; 9. From 'Exempla' to 'Exemplar'? Writing History around the Emperor in Imperial Rome; 10. Josephus and Greek Literature in Flavian Rome; 11. Parallel Lives of Two Lawgivers: Josephus' Moses and Plutarch's 'Lycurgus'; 12. Figured Speech and Irony in T. Flavius Josephus; 13. Spectacle in Josephus' 'Bellum Judaicum'; 14. The Empire Writes Back: Josephan Rhetoric in Flavian Rome

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